agents
Class RandomIncreasingUtilAgent

java.lang.Object
  negotiator.Agent
      agents.RandomIncreasingUtilAgent

public class RandomIncreasingUtilAgent
extends Agent

Author:

W.Pasman 6nov08 Some improvements over the standard SimpleAgent. We only consider random bids with utility higher than the maximum and we search at most MAX_SEARCH times in the random space for a better bid. of the opponent utilities we saw so far.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class negotiator.Agent

fNegotiation, parametervalues, sessionNr, sessionsTotal, startTime, strategyParameters, timeline, totalTime, utilitySpace

Constructor Summary

RandomIncreasingUtilAgent()

Method Summary

Action	chooseAction() this function is called after ReceiveMessage, with an Offer-action.
static java.lang.String	getVersion()
void	init() init is called when a next session starts with the same opponent.
void	ReceiveMessage(Action opponentAction) informs you which action the opponent did

Methods inherited from class negotiator.Agent

endSession, getAgentID, getName, getParameterValues, getSessionNumber, getSessionsTotal, getStrategyParameters, getUniqueIdentifier, getUtility, internalInit, isUIAgent, loadSessionData, parseStrategyParameters, restartDataObjectsFolder, saveSessionData, setAgentID, setName, sleep

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

RandomIncreasingUtilAgent

public RandomIncreasingUtilAgent()

Method Detail

init

public void init()

init is called when a next session starts with the same opponent.

Overrides:

init in class Agent

getVersion

public static java.lang.String getVersion()

ReceiveMessage

public void ReceiveMessage(Action opponentAction)

Description copied from class: Agent

informs you which action the opponent did

Overrides:

ReceiveMessage in class Agent

chooseAction

public Action chooseAction()

Description copied from class: Agent

this function is called after ReceiveMessage, with an Offer-action.

Specified by:

chooseAction in class Agent

Returns:

(should return) the bid-action the agent wants to make.